(AGENPARL) – dom 20 ottobre 2024 Join us online or in-person for the extraordinary course by Dr. Caroline Elbay in November
Cities in Literature and Music
Literature Course
13 November – 18 December 2024
Every Wednesday, 6-8pm IST
Online & In-Person
Classes Recorded
Join us at the James Joyce Centre where our lifelong learning founder Dr. Caroline Elbay presents Cities in Literature and Music.
This six-week course of literary exploration, music and shared talks examines the varied roles that major cities of Dublin, Trieste, London, Paris, Cordoba, and Prague have played in both literary and musical works of different eras and genres.
Together with exploring the concept of ‘the City’ through commentators such as Italo Calvino (Invisible Cities) and Jonathan Raban (Soft City), this course will take readers to Dublin with James Joyce’s bildungsroman, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. A taste of Victorian decadence is guaranteed as readers explore the labyrinthine city of Victorian London through Oscar Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray before proceeding to Paris with Gaston Leroux’s Phantom of the Opera. A journey to warmer and more sultry climes will transport readers to Cordoba and Prosper Merimee’s novella Carmen. Finally, our winterreise (winter journey) will terminate in the beautiful ‘city of spires’: Franz Kafka’s Prague with The Metamorphosis and Utz by Bruce Chatwin.
Musical explorations of these cities will include works by M.W. Balfe, G.F. Hændel, Thomas Moore, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Giuseppe Verdi, Georges Bizet, Bedrich Smetana and Antonin Dvorak (to name but a few).
Classes will be recorded with the consent of the attendee in accordance with GDRP and will be available to view until December 31st 2024.
Course Details
Location: Zoom & The James Joyce Centre (35 North Great George’s Street)
Dates: 13 November – 18 December 2024
Time: Every Wednesday, 6-8pm IST
Registration: €80
We look forward to welcoming you to Cities in Literature and Music!
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